Paret-Peintre vs Almeida: salary and market value

Aurélien Paret-Peintre vs João Almeida

	Aurélien Paret-Peintre	João Almeida
Salary 2026	€1.5M Model	€2.5M Reported
Market value 2026	€725k Model	€3.2M Model
Salary against market value	+105%	-21%
Team	Decathlon CMA CGM	UAE Team Emirates-XRG
Role	second-tier leader	second-tier leader
Age	30	28
Nationality	France	Portugal
Contract to	end of 2027 (announced Oct 2024)	end of 2028 (announced Nov 2025)
Prize money generated, 2026	€0	€47k
Prize money received, 2026 Model	€23k	€12k
PCS rank	#419	#75

Salary: gross base salary, before tax. Reported or Press estimate when the press published it, Model when it is our estimate; market value is always our model. How the model works · How wrong it is. Prize money generated: what the rider won at WorldTour and ProSeries races, pooled with the team, not kept.

João Almeida earns more: €2.5M a year against €1.5M for Aurélien Paret-Peintre, 68% more. João Almeida's figure is reported in the press; Aurélien Paret-Peintre's is our model estimate. João Almeida is younger: 28 against 30. Aurélien Paret-Peintre's contract runs out earlier, at the end of 2027; João Almeida's runs to the end of 2028. Aurélien Paret-Peintre has the larger gap between salary and market value: his salary is 105% above his market value, against 21% below for João Almeida.

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Who earns more, Aurélien Paret-Peintre or João Almeida?

João Almeida earns more: €2.5M a year against €1.5M for Aurélien Paret-Peintre, 68% more.

Who has the higher market value, Aurélien Paret-Peintre or João Almeida?

João Almeida: €3.2M against €725k for Aurélien Paret-Peintre. Market value is our model's estimate of what the same job would cost on today's results.

Aurélien Paret-Peintre vs João Almeida

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